Ms Venhola-Fletcher used to be no longer in a position to mention when the previous University of Ottawa professor could be returning to Canada.

French judges dominated the proof “was not convincing enough” and ordered Mr Diab to be launched on Friday. His extradition to France has precipitated quite a few folks to name for an replace to Canada’s extradition act.

French prosecutors say they’ll attraction the verdict.

Mr Diab has at all times mentioned that he used to be in Lebanon on the time of his assault to jot down college checks, and several other witnesses, in addition to college paperwork, again up his declare.

French government first of all charged him according to proof that confirmed he resembled a comic strip of the primary suspect, and that his passport confirmed him getting into and leaving Spain across the time of the assault. They believed the suspect escaped thru Spain.

They had additionally claimed Mr Diab, who has taught sociology at two Ottawa universities, used to be a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

He used to be accused of constructing a bomb and leaving it in a motorbike out of doors the Copernic Street synagogue in Paris on three October 1980.

France’s CRIF Jewish federation president Francis Kalifat informed the AFP he used to be “dismayed” via the ruling, which he known as an “insult to the memory of the victims” of the assault.